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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Some of you people are ghouls. Len is a decent guy, clearly a little on the spectrum, who is a good sport about the schlocky films he makes. He brings an interesting perspective to discussions about movies. What's wrong with that?
 
Patton Oswald's BotW is the only one I've never finished. Max Landis' one required 3 takes before I got through it (also I've skipped their interview with him). Simon Barret was meh but I found him and Jay randomly bringing up and recognising perv movies mildly amusing. The rest of the guests range from fine to pretty good for me. I would take any of them over Josh or AIDSMoby.
 
Bobbobson said:
The rest of the guests range from fine to pretty good for me. I would take any of them over Josh or AIDSMoby.
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I always smile when Freddie Williams makes an appearance. Soft-spoken, "clean"-mouthed, but just as foul a mind as the rest. "Her groinal region was ... right down the barrel."
 
frozen_runner said:
Some of you people are ghouls. Len is a decent guy, clearly a little on the spectrum, who is a good sport about the schlocky films he makes. He brings an interesting perspective to discussions about movies. What's wrong with that?
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I actually liked when he wanted everyone to say one positive about the movie because I think it makes them consider the film more as a whole. Like, yes, it's still bad, likely horrible, but being endlessly negative about something isn't super interesting. In my opinion, it made their critique stronger afterward because that small exercise reframed their mindsets and made future conversations more varied and interesting.
 
BubbleButt said:
I actually liked when he wanted everyone to say one positive about the movie because I think it makes them consider the film more as a whole. Like, yes, it's still bad, likely horrible, but being endlessly negative about something isn't super interesting. In my opinion, it made their critique stronger afterward because that small exercise reframed their mindsets and made future conversations more varied and interesting.
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I wish they'd review more of his movies. That episode of BOTW with Night Beast, Trick Or Treat and Skull Forest is one of my all time favorites.
 

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Hentai-Semitism said:
I wish they'd review more of his movies. That episode of BOTW with Night Beast, Trick Or Treat and Skull Forest is one of my all time favorites.
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Of course, that episode was filmed nearly 12 years ago ... none of them were 40 yet, all of them so bright-eyed and chipper, the ravages of age and the attendant loss of joy that we now see in most of their output far off in the distance.
 
Holy shit they did a Half in the Bag on a movie in a timely manner instead of three months later.

They’re even doing it in the hot warehouse on set, I haven’t seen them care about a movie like this for a long time.

Edit: Damn, sniped by a fraction of a second, this is what I get for trying to add commentary before just posting the link.
 
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PyrrhicRustle said:
Holy shit they did a Half in the Bag on a movie in a timely manner instead of three months later.

They’re even doing it in the hot warehouse on set, I haven’t seen them care about a movie like this for a long time.

Edit: Damn, sniped by a fraction of a second, this is what I get for trying to add commentary before just posting the link.
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Given how the buzz around this movie is basically "it's great, but don't go into it spoiled" I'm assuming this is a high recommend.
 
Reminds me of Strange Darling, one of the few horror movies I've gone to the theater for the last several years and loved it. They have a similar reaction in this, so I might check it out. They didn't spoil it either and heaped praise.
 
frozen_runner said:
Some of you people are ghouls. Len is a decent guy, clearly a little on the spectrum, who is a good sport about the schlocky films he makes. He brings an interesting perspective to discussions about movies. What's wrong with that?
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Not to beat this to death but in regards to my last post. It wasn't meant to be as critical as it came across. It was just meant as a passing observation that he had the kind of awkward energy that's a little difficult to watch. Let's face it, most people probably would if they somehow found themselves on a panel show.

Is he a nice guy? Certainly. It's genuinely great to see people develop skills and just going all out with what they love to do.
 
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will these guys ever try to make another movie? or are they too chickenshit scared that people online will savage them like they did to so many others? would they make a "serious" movie or would they do another nyuk nyuk chucklefuck into the camera "we made it bad on purpose" movie? are you stuckmanized?
 
Bobbobson said:
Patton Oswald's BotW is the only one I've never finished.
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I thought it was underwhelming, and I was about to turn it off when I had a strange experience. During the review portion, time slowed down to a crawl, the colors became too bright, oversaturated. I could vaguely hear discordant music, like hurdy-gurdy circus tent tunes. With Mike and Jay frozen, mouths open, Patton looked straight at the camera and said, "I killed my wife and staged it as a drug overdose, and I'll kill again." The sounds coming out of his mouth definitely weren't in English or any language I know, but I understood the meaning perfectly. The rest of the video played as normal.

Afterword, I wasn't sure if I actually saw the scene or just imagined it, and a second viewing of the video doesn't contain that fucked up portion. Give it a rewatch and tell me if you see it too..
 
Sheriff Mike Chitwood said:
will these guys ever try to make another movie? or are they too chickenshit scared that people online will savage them like they did to so many others? would they make a "serious" movie or would they do another nyuk nyuk chucklefuck into the camera "we made it bad on purpose" movie? are you stuckmanized?
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I never saw Spacecop, but I saw the references to it in their other videos, and I feel like I know all I need to know about it.
It's interesting that they violated some of their own axioms with it, in particular: "It's not entertaining when you try to make a bad movie."

I don't think they have another movie in them. They got this one out of their system, and now they talk all the time about what a colossal pain in the ass it is to make a movie. The appeal of making Spacecop was mostly about having the experience of making a movie, and now that they've done it once, it's not worth repeating. I think that they realize that it's more fun and a better use of their time to continue doing what they're doing (On a dollars-earned per hours-worked basis, I wonder how making Spacecop compares to making a BotW episode) .

I don't think that they care too much about people saying mean things about them on the internet (although they do publicly reference comments about their videos more than I would expect people in their positions to). Not making another movie would be more about ROI than fear of criticism in my view.
 
Patreon Update:

Hey everyone! We're currently putting together a Half in the Bag for Weapons! Even though it feels like 120 degrees in our studio right now, we're going to tough it out to discuss this weird movie. In addition to that, we're in the early planning for another director ranking video. This time it's for Joe Dante, director of the the greatest movie ever made Gremlins 2! There's been so many of his movies that people have been suggested a ton that we should do on re:View like The Burbs and Innerspace, so we though it would be appropriate to just cover them all. It may take a while to get through everything, but it's in the works.

Of course, the HITB is already out, but the Re:View is not.
 
Nosredna said:
Not to beat this to death but in regards to my last post. It wasn't meant to be as critical as it came across. It was just meant as a passing observation that he had the kind of awkward energy that's a little difficult to watch. Let's face it, most people probably would if they somehow found themselves on a panel show.

Is he a nice guy? Certainly. It's genuinely great to see people develop skills and just going all out with what they love to do.
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You don't need to apologize, man. This is the internet, and we're mostly just shitposting.
 
Introvertigo said:
Patreon Update:

Hey everyone! We're currently putting together a Half in the Bag for Weapons! Even though it feels like 120 degrees in our studio right now, we're going to tough it out to discuss this weird movie. In addition to that, we're in the early planning for another director ranking video. This time it's for Joe Dante, director of the the greatest movie ever made Gremlins 2! There's been so many of his movies that people have been suggested a ton that we should do on re:View like The Burbs and Innerspace, so we though it would be appropriate to just cover them all. It may take a while to get through everything, but it's in the works.

Of course, the HITB is already out, but the Re:View is not.
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David Lynch ranking video never. Looking forward to the Joe Dante video though.
 
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